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...into her old sources at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. They've come back to relive Camelot's stop here in 1960 when they had dark, slicked-back hair and offered serious phrases to a young woman who was the first to cover such an event for television. In Milwaukee, Wis., where I stop with W., my aunt hands me a cache of Mom's letters. By election time, my Bush briefing papers have been smashed up against these relics in my cases for so long that the smell of the barns and attics where the notes were stored...
...into her old sources at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. They've come back to relive Camelot's stop here in 1960 when they had dark, slicked-back hair and offered serious phrases to a young woman who was the first to cover such an event for television. In Milwaukee, Wis., where I stop with W., my aunt hands me a cache of Mom's letters. By election time, my Bush briefing papers have been smashed up against these relics in my cases for so long that the smell of the barns and attics where the notes were stored...
...Exeter Academy in 1931, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest - invited by a friend of his wife's - comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite...
...There was definitely when we left [people who said] 'Oh, at least when you all were here you had some connection to this far-gone Camelot," Griffith says...
...judge by the rhetoric of the Vanishing Voter types, we have fallen from some political state of grace, a moment that seems to be located (as many progressive Edens are) in the early years of the Kennedy Administration. But America's past does not begin with JFK's tawdry Camelot, and a glance at the history of American voting patterns suggests that large-scale peaks and troughs in voter-turnout are the norm, rather than the exception...